Locked up in confined spaces and unable to swim freely: 90 belugas and 11 killer whales are detained on the east coast of Russia exactly near the Pacific city of Nakhodka. The dramatic images were made with a drone
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
Locked up in confined spaces and without the possibility of swimming freely: 90 belugas and 11 killer whales they are held on the east coast of Russia exactly near the Pacific city of Nakhodka. The dramatic images were made with a drone.
A real prison for cetaceans because the animals are kept in small overcrowded enclosures and then from there, according to activists, are transported to unknown locations and sold to Chinese water parks and aquariums, effectively violating the laws on the capture of marine animals.
According to CBS News, some animals have been there since July, deprived of their liberty and with an unknown fate. In this video you can see the crane that lifts them and the containment tanks in which they will be transported.
As evidence of this illegal practice, there are data published by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazetta according to which the four companies that manage these prisons between 2013 and 2016 exported 13 killer whales to China. Another dramatic aspect is that neither environmentalists nor journalists can access it in the area and only with the help of a drone has it been possible to document this barbaric practice.
And as people investigate whether they have been caught for scientific purposes, activists are increasingly concerned about their health. The cetaceans are kept in spaces that do not exceed 9 meters per side and 4 meters deep.
Watch the video of the prison of beluga and killer whales:
‘Whale prison’ discovered by drone in Far East Russia pic.twitter.com/gkZBVmYwVp
— RT (@RT_com) 8 November 2018
This means that as soon as the Pacific Ocean becomes frozen they will be trapped and will have to break it in order to breathe, but in those conditions it seems difficult for them to succeed. Greenpeace Russia talks about torture and long-term danger of extinction for these giants of the sea.
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Dominella Trunfio
